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Got Baggage? Inside Cornell’s Luggage Transport Woes
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Amid baggage limits and rising shipping prices, students face difficulties returning to school with all their belongings.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/move-in/)
Amid baggage limits and rising shipping prices, students face difficulties returning to school with all their belongings.
Students express varying sentiments regarding the University’s updated COVID-19 policies for the spring 2022 semester.
Cornell will begin the spring semester online and extend the move-in period with an expanded testing scheme, as it expects large numbers of cases during the first few weeks of the term, the University announced Thursday.
Though COVID risks still remained during this year’s move-in, the Class of 2025 shuffled into their new dorms free –– for the most part –– of quarantine and nasal swabs, a return to the more conventional move-in processes of the past.
Students from states on New York’s travel restriction have started their mandatory 14-day quarantines, and thousands of Cornellians are set to move into dorms this week. One first-year said the quarantine isn’t too bad, “but it definitely doesn’t feel like college.”
After nearly a day, Cornell RAs will suspend their strike 2 p.m. Thursday. Many RAs went on strike because they felt underpaid, unprotected from COVID-19 risks and unheard by the administration. Cornell has agreed to a “larger process of communication and dialogue” with the RAs.
Cornell announced move-in dates and COVID-19 test time slots to on-campus students on Friday.
After Cornell announced it would no longer provide quarantine accommodations to students from travel advisory states, students are rushing to figure it out themselves.
Cornell, already, is not holding up their end of the bargain; we have to pick up the slack.
Travelers from 31 states need to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in New York.